Alaskan detective Kate Shugak, working as a deckhand on Old Sam Dementieff's fishing boat Freya, finds a body in the water. It's a fisherman who has been beaten, stabbed, strangled and drowned. Overkill. But why?

A dead woman in the robes of a priest. A revelation that will rewrite history. The Boatman is a gripping and original thriller, which plunges its readers into the filth and glamour of modern-day Venice.